1907.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT No. 73. 49 



Next season's work will include the general use of the burlap, 

 while spraying will be necessary in certain infested districts. 

 The great number of car lines converging at Reading Square 

 make it most important that the trees in this section should be 

 thoroughly cared for. 



REVERE. 

 A. H. DAVENPORT, Local Superintendent. 



Although the work in Revere has not shown the progress that 

 it should have, in view of the amount of money expended, at 

 the same time there has been much improvement over the 

 conditions of last year. There has been a quite general en- 

 forcement of the law on the infested private estates, while the 

 street trees have been well cared for. It is to be regretted 

 that more in the way of cutting wild cherry trees and worth- 

 less infested brush along the many farm walls in this town 

 could not have been done. In the northern part of the town, 

 notably at Oak Island, infested trees have been badly neglected, 

 with the result that a great deal of spreading of the moths 

 has no doubt occurred from this point. It is hoped that the 

 arrangements now in progress will result in clearing this district 

 from the moth pests. Next season's work should include a 

 thorough effort to burlap all the street trees of the district, 

 clearing of the Oak Island section of brush, the spraying of the 

 remaining trees there and also those in the important infested 

 residential sections. 



SALEM. 

 AMOS STILLMAN, Local Superintendent. 



In the report for 1905 the superintendent stated: The 

 problem of suppressing the moths in Salem is a most serious 

 one, and constant effort and the expenditure of a large amount 

 of money for some years to come will be necessary to keep 

 them under control." 



The results developed in this city last season amply verify 

 this statement and prediction. During the months of February, 

 March and April the work of clearing the badly infested street 

 trees was prosecuted in a generally satisfactory manner, but 

 most unfortunately practically no funds could be obtained to 



